Hilary Tann (1947-2023)
Songs of the Cotton Grass
Duration (in minutes): 17
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any high voice, any woodwind, oboe, soprano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-a_girls_song_to_her_mother-pgs12-secure-9.pdf
Description: Four songs with texts by Menna Elfyn. Three are "reverse lullabies".
"A Girl's Song to Her Mother", "Slave's Song", "Wings of the Grasses", "Vale of Feathers". Multiple CD recordings. The duo is for voice and oboe, or another melody instrument. (Audio is an excerpt of "Vale of Feathers, with Elizabeth Donovan, sop; Matthew Jones, vla.)